by Ariel Netz, Group Program Manager in the Power BI Designer team
Last month we released the last update for our “spring season” and the team is putting together the plans for this fall (i.e the plans for the next 6 months, which is our internal planning cadence).
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Just three months ago, we first unveiled the Power BI Preview, and since then, we've been continually releasing new features and improvements, from content packs for Microsoft Dynamics Marketing and Google Analytics , to support for treemaps on dashboards , to a slew of enhancements in the Power BI Designer...

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We hope all of you are enjoying 2015 so far! The Power Query team has been busy working on the latest Power Query update, which includes a new connector (or many new connectors, in this case!) and a bunch of other usability improvements.
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Recently we have announced a new public update to Excel 2013 that includes major stability and usability improvements in Self Service BI scenarios, especially when Power Query, Power Pivot & Power View are involved. For this release we eliminated over 120 bugs, crashes and hangs, and introduced two...

Today we announced the new Power Map December Update that includes improved performance for geocoding, increased accuracy for the Auto Fit feature in custom maps, and the option of selecting all items when filtering. For more details on how to use this last feature, check the official announcement at...

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We are happy to announce the availability of the November 2014 Update for Power Query. This update is packed with lots of new features that we hope you will enjoy and thank us for them (hmm, since we are in Thanksgiving week…...

Today we announced the Power Map November update , that adds a new feature requested by many Power Map users: the ability to play any tour directly from any scene . Before this update, if you wanted to check how a specific scene looked, you would have had to run the whole tour from the start. For instructions...

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October is getting close to an end, but before we all put on our costumes and eat lots of candy for Halloween, we are very pleased to give you another treat: the...

Last month we announced two exciting new features for Power Map , including support for Filtering, and the ability to plot data on top of Custom Maps .
This month we’ve focused on providing quality improvements. We’ve made more fixes in Power Map than in any monthly release so far spanning...

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Another month is almost over and that means that a new Power Query update is due. We’re glad to announce the availability of the September 2014 Power Query...

Today Microsoft announced a new Power Map update that includes two of the most requested features by our users: Filtering and Custom Maps .
As usual, all of the new features we incorporate into these monthly updates are based on your feedback to make Power Map a better story telling and data visualization...

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Support for loading Binary-typed columns (such as images) to the Data Model
Multi-query editing in the Query Editor
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More flexible Load Options
Query Groups
Improved Error Debugging Experience
Additional Query Editor transformations
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Update notifications
The July 2014 Update for Power Query is now available. You can download it from this...

The Power Map team is excited and proud to bring you the April update of Microsoft Power Map for Excel. This update brings new functionality to Power Map and improves some existing features. Power Map users with an active Office 365 subscription will receive this update through Office 365 Click-To-Run...

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Today, with Office Service Pack 1 , we’re announcing that moving forward Power Map will now be native to Excel. No longer a preview add-in, Power Map can now be found on the “Insert” tab in Excel for Office 365 ProPlus customers. Subscription customers...

Today we’re pleased to announce the addition of significant new features to both the Power BI for Office 365 and the Power Query add-in for Excel previews. Introduced in July and currently in preview, Power BI for Office 365 is a cloud based solution that reduces the barriers to deploying a self...

In this blog post we want to give you an overview of the new Power Query features included as part of the Power BI for Office 365 offering . Along with several other self-service BI capabilities in Power BI, we are enhancing the Power Query experiences and feature set in Excel. You can download the latest...

Last month we announced the General Availability of Microsoft Power Query for Excel , and today we are excited to introduce a new quality update. Power Query is supported for your production scenarios and we will continue to deliver updates that provide added stability and performance benefits as we...